National Chengchi University Master Program of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies

Journal Publications

• 蘇怡文*, 2026.01, 'The Merits and Limits of Isnād-Cum-Matn Analysis in Dating Deep Dives: An Evaluation Based on Two Faḍāʾil Hadith, ' Comparative Islamic Studies, pp.1-39.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2025.12, 'Regional Division in the Early Works of Hadith Criticism: The Creation and Breaking of Geographical Boundaries, ' Ex-position, Vol.54, pp.27–54..(MLA, THCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2025.02, 'Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Saʿdī al-Jūzjānī (d. 259/873?) and his Aḥwāl al-rijāl: An Early Systematic Approach to Rijāl Criticism, ' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.88, No.1, pp.27–47.(AHCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.12, 'Review of Reconstructing the Variant Generation Process of Hadith: Based on the Quantative and the Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis by Hiroyuki Yanaghihashi, ' Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol.144, No.4, pp.904–907.(AHCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.04, 'Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis, ' Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol.83, No.1, pp.107–121.(AHCI, MLA, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.04, 'Review of Sectarianism in Islam: The Umma Divided by Adam R. Gaiser, ' Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol.144, No.1, pp.479–482.(AHCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.01, 'The Ten Promised Paradise: a study of the origin and formation of a Sunni doctrine through Isnād-cum-Matn analysis, ' Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol.35, No.1, pp.1–45.(AHCI, SSCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2023.10, 'The Martyrs on the Mountain: The Early Traditionist Compromise over the First fitna”, ' Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol.143, No.4, pp.815–837.(AHCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2023.02, 'The Ambiguity of Early Hadith Criticism: ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī’s (161–234/778–849) Evaluation of Hadith Transmitters, ' The Muslim World, Vol.112, No.4, pp.492–518.(AHCI, MLA, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2022.12, 'Toward a Sunni Consensus on the Rightly Guided Caliphs: Ibn ʿUmar’s Hadith and Its Transmitters, ' Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol.142, No.4, pp.825-849.(AHCI, SCOPUS, Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2022.09, 'Travel in Search of Knowledge in Early Hadith Science: al-Rāmahurmuzī's (d. 360/970–1?) Conception of al-riḥla fī ṭalab al-ʿilm in al-Muḥaddith al-fāṣil bayna al-rāwī wa-l-wāʿī, ' Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol.48, No.2, pp.47-68.(AHCI, MLA, THCI, SCOPUS)(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2022.01, 'ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī (161–234/778–849): A Critical Reconstruction of His Biography and Evaluation of His Contribution to Hadith Criticism, ' Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol.3, No.1, pp.1–34.(AHCI, SSCI, SCOPUS, Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2021.01, 'The Early Shiʿi Kufan Traditionists’ Perspective on the Rightly Guided Caliphs, ' Journal of American Oriental Society, Vol.141, No.1, pp.27–47.(AHCI, SCOPUS, Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2020.11, 'Compromise for the Community: the Early Kūfan Soft Shīʿī Traditionists and the Formation of the Four-Caliphs Thesis (al-khulafāʾ al-rāshidūn), ' International Journal of West Asian Studies, Vol.12, pp.304-322.(Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2020.06, 'Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī, the Author of the Kitāb al-Aghānī, ' WikiJournal of Humanities, Vol.3, No.1, pp.1.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2018.09, 'The Family History of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī: the Ninth-Century ʿAbbāsid Political Elite and the Ṭālibids in Sāmarrāʾ, ' Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol.29, No.3, pp.417–448.(AHCI, SSCI, Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2018.09, 'Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong? Al-Ṭabarī’s Representation of al-Walīd b. ʿUqba as Criticism of the Ḥanbalīs, ' International Journal of West Asian Studies, Vol.10, No.1, pp.46-59.(Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2018.03, 'Al-Iṣfahānī’s Fandom in the Kitāb al-Aġānī (The Book of Songs): An Analysis of the Biography of Ibn Surayǧ, ' Jurnal Hadhari: An International Journal, Vol.10, No.2, pp.275-289.(Index Islamicus)(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2016.06, 'Writing History under the Patronage: the Representation of Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al Malik in the Ansāb al-ashrāf and Its Relation to the ‘Abbāsid Court Culture, ' Foreign Language Studies, No.24, pp.1–25.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

Presentation/Proceedings

• 蘇怡文*, 2025.11, 'Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī and Early Kūfan Shīʿism, ' ISIC2025 The Eighth International Hybrid Conference on Islamic Civilisation: Sects, Sectarianism, and Sectarian Identities in Islam, NCCU & UKM.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.12, 'Shuʿba b. al-Ḥajjāj (d. 160/776) and Shīʿism: His Sectarian Tendencies and Approach to Hadith Criticism, ' AFMA 2024 the 15th Conference of the Asian Federation of Middle East Studies Associations, AFMA & Doshisha University.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.11, 'Regional Division in the Early Works of Hadith Criticism: The Creation and Breaking of Geographical Boundaries, ' The 18th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TACMARS & National Taiwan University.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.03, 'al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His ‘Antagonism toward ʿAlī’: a Comparative Analysis, ' 2024 AFOMEDI Conference: Spaces of Familiarity, Spaces of Difference in the Mediterranean, AFOMEDI & Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2024.01, 'The Limits of ICMA: al-ḥadīth al-gharīb, ' International Conference Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis (ICMA) as a Method in Contemporary Hadith Studies, Georgetown University and Charles Sturt University.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2023.11, 'Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Saʿdī al-Jūzjānī (d. 259/873?): His Approach and Contribution to Hadith Criticism, ' MESA Annual Meeting, MESA.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2021.12, 'Travel and Hadith Criticism in Early Islam, ' The Fifteenth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS): Cultures of Travel: Tourism, Pilgrimage, Migration, TACMRS and NTNU.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2021.05, 'ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī: A Critical Review and Reconstruction of His Biography, ' Brais 2021 Online Series, The University of Edinburgh.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2019.02, 'The Early Shīʿī Kūfan Traditionists’ Views on the Rightly Guided Caliphs (al-khulafāʾ al-rāshidūn), ' The Second International Conference on Islamic Civilisation (ISIC 2019): The Movement of Population, Objects, and Ideas in the Pre-Modern and Modern Muslim World, NCCU and UKM, pp.188-205.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2018.11, 'Moving Towards the Four-Caliphs Thesis? The Early Kūfan Traditionists' Views on the Rightly Guided Caliphs, ' Sectarian Identity and Community Formation in Islam, The University of Chicago.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2018.05, 'The Taming of the Dissenters: the Soft Shīʿī Traditionists Move towards the Concept of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (al-khulafāʾ al-rāshidūn) in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries, ' 中東的邊陲世界, 輔仁大學.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2018.01, 'Al-Iṣfahānī’s Fandom in the Kitāb al-Aġānī (The Book of Songs): An Analysis of the Biography of Ibn Surayǧ, ' Proceedings of 1st International Seminar on Islamic Civilization (ISIC 2018), NCCU and UKM.(*為通訊作者) Ref.
• 蘇怡文*, 2017.11, 'Al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī in the Formative Period: Two Early Examples of Prophetic Medicine by ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb and Ibn al-Sunnī, ' 轉型中的阿拉伯國家—經濟與文化面面觀研討會, NCCU.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2016, 'Al-Balādhurī’s sectarian vision: was he a proto-Sunnī?, ' Al-Balādhurī: A Guide for the Perplexed, Oxford University.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2016, 'Commanding Right and Forbiddig Wrong? Al-Ṭabarī’s Presentation of al-Walīd b. ʿUqba as criticsim of Ḥanbalites, ' IMES Research Seminars, Edinburgh University.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2015.09, 'Asserting a Shī‘ī ī past in the history of songs: the Kitāb al-Aghānī and its authorial voice, ' Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography, Aga Khan University and SOAS.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2014.09, 'Representations of the Marwanids in the Ansāb al-ashrāf and the reception of its audience in the ninth-century cultural milieu”, ' The Authors, Editors, and Audiences of Medieval Middle Eastern Texts, Cambridge University.(*為通訊作者)
• 蘇怡文*, 2014.04, 'Writing History under the patronage: the Representation of Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik in the Ansāb al-ashrāf, ' BRAIS conference, Edinburgh University.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

Book

• 蘇怡文*, 2021.02, 'The Shīʿī Past in the Great Book of the Songs: a New Perspective on the Kitāb al-Aghānī by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and Shīʿī Islam in the Tenth Century, ' Gorgias Press.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

Book Chapters

• 蘇怡文*, 2018.11, 'al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī in the Formative Period: An Analysis of Two Early Examples of Texts on Prophetic Medicine by ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb (790-853) and Ibn al-Sunnī (893-974), ' 轉型中的阿拉伯國家：經濟與文化面面觀, 中華民國阿拉伯文化經濟會, pp.59-107.(*為通訊作者) Ref.

Others

• 蘇怡文*, 2019.10, '古蘭經研究與早期伊斯蘭歷史之連結, '.(*為通訊作者)

Current Position

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• 教授
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2023/08/01 ~ 2027/02/01

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• 副教授
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2020/08/01 ~ 2023/08/01

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• 助理教授
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2017/02/01 ~ 2020/08/01

Administrative Position

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• 系主任
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2024/08/01 ~ 2025/07/31

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• 系主任
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2023/08/01 ~ 2024/07/31

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• 系主任
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2022/08/01 ~ 2023/07/31

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• 學程主任
• 中東與中亞研究碩士學位學程
• 2022/08/01 ~ 2023/07/31

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• 系主任
• 阿拉伯語文學系
• 2021/08/01 ~ 2022/07/31

Professional Experience

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• International Journal of Islamic Thought
• Editorial Board Member
• 2026/01/01 ~ 2030/12/31